Ministerstvo sociální péče - Londýn

The Czechoslovak Government-in-Exile consisted of the President, the Goverment and the State Council (which should represented the Czechoslovak parliament) - Edvard Beneš the former President of the Czechoslovak Republic was accepted as the President of the Czechoslovak Government-in-Exile. The Czechoslovak Government-in-Exile consisted of 7 ministries: Ministry of the National Defence, Ministry of the Interior, Ministry of Justice, Ministry of Finance, Ministry of Social Welfare, Ministry of Economic Recovery, Ministry of Agriculture. The creator of the fonds is the Czechoslovak Ministry of Social Welfare in London which was established in 1940. The fonds consists of mainly administrative documents of the ministry. It dealt with the refugees and members of the Czechoslovak army and their relatives, it provided social and medical support and also made a registration of Czechoslovak citizens in exile and arranged job opportunities for them. It cooperated with other organisations that provided a financial, medical and social support to refugees, such as the Czech Refugee Trust Fund (CRTF) or the Czechoslovak Red Cross. Further more, the Ministry of Social Welfare prepared plans for post-war reconstruction and repatriation of Czechoslovak citizens and from 1944, it was in charge to dispose the organisation of the Czechoslovak Government-in-Exile (it provided financial support for dismissed employees and helped them to find a new job opportunity). Printed finding aid is accessible in the archival reading room. The finding aid Nr. 964 is available online on: http://www.badatelna.eu/fond/9/. The fonds includes various administrative correspondence (this correspondence refers to requests for social supports or finding a job opportunity), questionnaires of repatriates, circulars, information booklets, studies, reports and records of the Czechoslovak National Council and its committees. Jewish related documents can be found in various boxes, such as in boxes 58 and 59, there are files of Jewish associations, clubs and Jewish committees including the Federation of Czechoslovak Jews, The Union of Orthodox Jews from Czechoslovakia or Central Board of Jews. There are also documents from the Social Committee of Jews from Czechoslovakia in the United Kingdom. Further more, there are files related to the evacuation of Jews from various countries, reports about the situation of Czechoslovak Jews in Palestine, reports about Jews (and other Czechoslovak citizens) imprisoned in the concentration camps or records from meetings of the Czechoslovak Government in the matters of Czechoslovak Jews.